Quotes by Bill Hader

Bill Hader

American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director

Alive from: 1978-

Category: Comedians and humor | Movie | Media | Writers (Contemporary)

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  Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

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  'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.

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  'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

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  'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

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  A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.

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  A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

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  At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.

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  Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.

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  Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

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  Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

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  For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

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  Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I'm bad at loud restaurants.

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  I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

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  I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

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  I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.